Azerbaijani banks buy $80M from State Oil Fund

  11 April 2016    Read: 884
Azerbaijani banks buy $80M from State Oil Fund
The State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan (SOFAZ) sold $80 million to 21 banks through the auction held by the Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA), SOFAZ said Apr.11.
SOFAZ offered $100 million for sale through the auction.

SOFAZ will continue selling foreign currency through auctions in 2016.

The foreign currency is sold as part of SOFAZ`s transfers to the Azerbaijani state budget, which are envisaged to stand at 7.615 billion Azerbaijani manats in 2016.

SOFAZ was established in 1999 with assets of $271 million.

As of January 1, 2016, SOFAZ assets reduced by 9.5 percent compared to 2014 ($37.1 billion) and were estimated at $33.57 billion.

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